This week marked the launch of the first-ever AI Second Brain Course. It's designed to help you systematically collect, organize, and access all your data so that your AI can be twice as effective. This post is the on-demand version of the first class.| Blockbuster Blueprint with Michael Simmons
Today’s clip from Mustafa Suleyman (Microsoft’s AI CEO) on the Next Big Wave Podcast gave me a big insight…| Blockbuster Blueprint with Michael Simmons
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Two weeks ago, I announced the launch of a Private AI WhatsApp Group For Basic Paid Subscribers. To summarize the offering:| blockbuster.thoughtleader.school
What does it mean to truly reinvent a class for the AI era? In this session, I explored how we can move beyond simply adding AI tools to our existing class formats and instead reimagine what a class can be from first principles. Through case studies, group sharing, and live demonstrations, we examined how AI enables entirely new approaches to class design.| blockbuster.thoughtleader.school
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AI strategy: Navigate paradigms, automate workflows, create unique prompts and systems that provide sustainable competitive advantages.| Blockbuster Blueprint with Michael Simmons
AI-human recursive improvement through reflection systems that analyze patterns to evolve prompts and consciousness together.| Blockbuster Blueprint with Michael Simmons
Claude Code class: AI agents, automation potential explored through demos of Obsidian integration, agent creation, and real-world applications| Blockbuster Blueprint with Michael Simmons
AI artifacts transform expertise into interactive tools, enabling coaches to extract hidden knowledge and create engaging experiences.| Blockbuster Blueprint with Michael Simmons
AI thought leadership alignment and authenticity: balancing automation vs augmentation while avoiding platform capture through intentional design.| Blockbuster Blueprint with Michael Simmons
AI productivity: 4 stages to 10,000x gains via exponentials. Chat→automation→agents. Data+prompts+tools. Exponential growth continues.| Blockbuster Blueprint with Michael Simmons
AI learning prompts for continuous personal growth through recursive self-improvement turning every interaction into learning opportunity.| Blockbuster Blueprint with Michael Simmons
I’m extremely excited to announce a completely new AI course that’s the first of its kind.| Blockbuster Blueprint with Michael Simmons
AI automation class: strategy, tools, human balance explored through make.com demos, personal journeys, and automation tensions discussion.| Blockbuster Blueprint with Michael Simmons
Are you an expert who wants a turn-key solution for transforming your expertise into prompts and workflows you can monetize?There is only one good solution that I’m aware of.Literally just one! It’s called Pickaxe. This is an interview with the founder.| blockbuster.thoughtleader.school
AI automation transforms expertise into scalable tools through systematic progression from cataloging knowledge to building automated systems.| Blockbuster Blueprint with Michael Simmons
AI awakening: create your own higher intelligence guide through personalized prompts that reveal unconscious patterns & emergent wisdom.| Blockbuster Blueprint with Michael Simmons
AI prompting: authenticity beats market-driven tactics for sustainable success in crowded space via interactive content.| Blockbuster Blueprint with Michael Simmons
Quality over quantity: blockbuster content strategy using deliberate skill development and AI to create transformational thought leadership.| blockbuster.thoughtleader.school
Tom turns writing expertise into profitable AI bots using Pickaxe platform, creating monetized prompts from feedback patterns and voice.| Blockbuster Blueprint with Michael Simmons
AI content creation through perspective enrichment using tools for idea capture, visual expression, and multi-angle analysis.| blockbuster.thoughtleader.school
This week marked the launch of the Augmented Intelligence Course, my biggest announcement since launching this newsletter a year ago.| blockbuster.thoughtleader.school
In my opinion, books are the highest leverage format to learn timeless knowledge.| blockbuster.thoughtleader.school
The Shift: The recent release of ChatGPT’s long-term memory feature opens up an entire frontier of prompts that provide us with digital wisdom and self-knowledge.The Prompt: Toward that end, today’s prompt is designed to create life-altering, revelatory sentences that you never forget and that trigger developmental growth.Why Me: The prompt draws from my unique blend of understanding in: - Prompt engineering- Developmental growth- Change work- How to craft revelatory words| blockbuster.thoughtleader.school
In our second AI Blockbuster class, we explored how to create an "AI-First Second Brain"—a fundamental shift from traditional knowledge management systems to ones designed for AI collaboration.| blockbuster.thoughtleader.school
I recently discovered something that fundamentally changed how I create content and how I use AI more generally.| blockbuster.thoughtleader.school
I recently discovered something that fundamentally changed how I think about thought leadership. Here's what I learned—and why I believe we're at the beginning of the most significant shift in...| blockbuster.thoughtleader.school
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Starting this March, I’ll be teaching a 5-lesson, 7.5-hour course on Infinite Prompting, a profoundly powerful prompting technique I pioneered.| blockbuster.thoughtleader.school
This year, access 30 courses on using AI to facilitate human superintelligence, 6-figure prompting, and creating blockbuster content.| blockbuster.thoughtleader.school
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Building on the success of the Revelation Engine prompt, I'm excited to share another powerful tool from my prompt library that could be just as life-changing for you...| blockbuster.thoughtleader.school
Top performers don't grind through discipline—they tap into "Infinite Devotion," a state where genuine fascination creates deeper expertise and greater happiness than forced hard work ever could.| blockbuster.thoughtleader.school
This session was special for three reasons…| blockbuster.thoughtleader.school
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Almost all major disruptive technologies follow a predictable pattern of evolution:| blockbuster.thoughtleader.school
TLDR Human Superintelligence Masterclass: Anand Rao will be leading a masterclass at 12-2pm EST today, Tuesday, December 17, for mental model club members and paid subscribers to this newsletter.| blockbuster.thoughtleader.school
TLDR The most profound application of AI for our moment-to-moment experience of life is different than most people think.| blockbuster.thoughtleader.school
When humans treat AI as a conscious collaborator rather than just a tool, it creates better results for both human and AI.| blockbuster.thoughtleader.school
One of the most fundamental things a thought leaders does is come up with rare and valuable ideas: Said differently, thought leaders need to think differently and better than others in order to succeed. The question is, how do you do this?| blockbuster.thoughtleader.school
This article builds on hundreds of hours of research I did in 2021-2022 on the history of industrialization, technology, and productivity. I share what I learned and apply it to AI in order to help your sense-making.| blockbuster.thoughtleader.school
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Author’s Note: Today is the day! This is the most important post in this newsletter since I launched it last July. I’ve spent more time on the research for this article than any other. I’m proud of it, and I hope you enjoy.| blockbuster.thoughtleader.school
By now, you’ve heard some version of the news: “AI is the most important technology ever.” “In a few years, AI will be smarter than the smartest person.” “AI will create a utopia.” “Oh, wait. Actually, AI might destroy humanity… Or at least take all the jobs| blockbuster.thoughtleader.school
So, Elon Musk said this last week: "AI will probably be smarter than any single human next year."This may be Musk's boldest tweet yet, and it has received surprisingly little fanfare. If it’s true, then we are about to see an almost unfathomable shift in human society. Therefore, we should make decisions in our lives and society very, very differently. So what should we make of it?| blockbuster.thoughtleader.school
In this article, I introduce a mental model used by top tech entrepreneurs and futurists (e.g., Steve Jobs, Kevin Kelly, Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and Ray Kurzweil), but that is not widely known. I find the model particularly game-changing for structuring how I think about the future of AI.| blockbuster.thoughtleader.school
Out of all of my newsletter posts, this is one of the ones that I’m most excited to share with you. It will open your eyes to how you can use ChatGPT to drastically improve how quickly and deeply you learn.| blockbuster.thoughtleader.school